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pleophony
pleophony
English
Noun
pleophony (uncountable)
- (linguistics) The phenomenon by which the Late Proto-Slavic "liquid diphthongs", formed from a vowel followed by a liquid *r or *l, become disyllabic -oro-, -ere- and -olo- reflexes in East Slavic languages.
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disyllabic reflex in East Slavic languages
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